1. arbitrary -- (based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice; "an arbitrary decision"; "the arbitrary rule of a dictator"; "an arbitrary penalty"; "of arbitrary size and shape"; "an arbitrary choice"; "arbitrary division of the group into halves")

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And stripes, and arbitrary punishmen. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton

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Rule thy own realms with arbitrary swa. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer

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He is a seemingly arbitrary man, this is because he knows what he is talking about better than any one else. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker

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poet's imagination, might seem arbitrary or far-fetched. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer

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He not only believes, but positively knows, that such and such apparently arbitrary arrangements of matter constitute and alone constitute the true beauty. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe

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And the farther we go back in examining events the less arbitrary do they appear. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

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Or could it be that there was a prearranged significance to such phrases as 'fly-paper' and 'hen-pheasant' Such a meaning would be arbitrary and could not be deduced in any way. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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The movement of humanity, arising as it does from innumerable arbitrary human wills, is continuous. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

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The public services to which the yeomanry were bound, were not less arbitrary than the private ones. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith